thenoblesunfish

6 ngày trướcdiscuss

Agreed, and (especially if you are a nerd who is good at tests) the description of the levels always seemed to me to imply more ability than what you really need to pass the test. OP, just study for the test and pass it. You can, and you will be proud of yourself and happier in your new home country.

thenoblesunfish

6 ngày trướcdiscuss

What are the numbers for context? How many people come? How many leave? In what jobs do they work? How does that compare to other countries?

thenoblesunfish

16 ngày trướcdiscuss

What's the technical definition of loudness that applies here? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUFS ?

thenoblesunfish

27 ngày trướcdiscuss

Never frobnicate without a flangleharp, says the flangleharp salesman. He could be right, but you would probably want to ask someone else.

thenoblesunfish

tháng trướcdiscuss

You are going to be asked to do your job, faster, and you are going to have a massive headache managing a bunch of machines mostly doing your job.

thenoblesunfish

tháng trướcdiscuss

Because a lot of us are engineers. It's our mindset and our job to question hype and broad strokes and easy solutions, to go a few levels deeper and ask "okay but does it really work?". I don't think most people are anti AI more than they are anti any tool.

thenoblesunfish

tháng trướcdiscuss

When a junior engineer first sent me something that looked good until I realized it had been vibed, and thus their understanding of what they were doing was too shallow to answer questions and improve on it. That was a doc, but it happens with everything. "Oh shit", I say, as everyone is aggressively encouraged to work this way.

thenoblesunfish

tháng trướcdiscuss

A terrible example, because chess is very, very simple - deterministic, rules fully specified in a few pages. We're talking about how you operate in a "games" which, among other complexities, involve the economy and human social dynamics. Billions of other agents. Find a plumber and try to beat them when someone calls you with a clogged toilet. Find a teacher and try to beat them when a student is repeatedly acting out.

thenoblesunfish

tháng trướcdiscuss

True that AI lets you get information fast an efficiently. But it might just make you feel like you understand, even if you don't have the kind of hard won domain intuition that this article is talking about. I certainly often get delusions of grandeur when I learn a lot of something and haven't yet suffered with it in practice.

thenoblesunfish

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

Perhaps part of the issue is that people feel compelled to respond, even though they don't have anything to say. Maybe people think if they burn some tokens for you that's somehow a more polite way to ignore you and hope you go away?

thenoblesunfish

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

To make sure this opinion is here:

The fact that they get to make this announcement is probably the biggest upside. Their base loves it. It makes people think they are doing something. There is an asymmetry in that if they quietly roll this back or it's blocked in court, it will generate only a tiny fraction of the publicity.

Probably not too controversial here to say that the economy wants these immigrants so good bet they'll keep getting hired.

It's a cruel strategy, but I think it's fair to say that it's far from certain it'll be a consistent one.

Don't let them troll you too much, stay strong.

thenoblesunfish

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

It's annoyingly huge, but is this worse than that? It's software - it does stuff and takes up space. If it takes up more space than you think the stuff is worth, then complain it's bloated, sure, but I am not sure why "silently" is being thrown around.

thenoblesunfish

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

It's true but then again, for most things, the correct answer is somewhere there, amongst the BS, so if you have a good BS detector and want some ideas, you could do worse. You can't outsource the part where you see for yourself if stuff works, and form your own opinions.

thenoblesunfish

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

Charming! Reminded me of "Naive. Super" by Erlend Loe, which I loved.

thenoblesunfish

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

Maybe this unfairly off topic, but in reading the intro, my thought was not that things become brittle and hard to change because of the inelegance of the abstractions, but because of the banal dynamics of work. Mostly, people act quickly towards short term goals, without full understanding. They accept technical debt, they pass things between people, and the numbers to avoid making things kinda gross just never work out.

thenoblesunfish

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

Very interesting! An aside and fishing lazily: I am one of those people where caffeine has a very strong and long lasting effect. I don't have caffeine after about 9am or it affects my sleep that night. I love drinking coffee, and fortunately for me it seems like decaf got way better and widely available recently. Did something happen there?

thenoblesunfish

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

"This audio is embedded from SoundCloud and requires cookies to function. To view this content, please enable analytics and marketing cookies using the cookies opt-in at the bottom of your screen." - lame!

thenoblesunfish

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

I still use Vim a lot, even though for work I use a fork of VSCode, like most people. Why? Because it's something I feel I can understand - it's simple and runs everywhere. It's the world of shells and text files. The work setup is a huge GUI with dozens of extensions, and now a whole other layer of non deterministic AI stuff. Useful, but it's a different kind of tool, one which relies on constant support from a large system.

thenoblesunfish

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

People don't like these checks. Ok. But. Parents worry about their kids being exposed to porn and social media. They want someone to do something about it. That political force is real, and someone is going to take advantage of it. What tools can they ask for if not these checks everyone agrees they hate? That's what I hope for in these types of comment threads.

thenoblesunfish

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

Just to make sure it's somewhere in these comments: the fundamental issue is people trying to measure something they don't understand. That is not new. The article gives an interesting exploration of how things break down in a new way when people focus too much on metrics instead of (IMO) the more robust approach of getting people who care to try to make something that feels quality. We're building crap, yes, but I blame the people who spend their time measuring "velocity" like it's a well defined term, not the coding tools being used to play the game.